American business schools are reinventing the MBA
By: Economist Nov 02, 2019 On a visit to New York in October Marc Benioff, boss of Salesforce, compared Facebook to cigarettes and backed a corporate tax hike to deal with homelessness in San Francisco. If badmouthing a fellow technology giant and cheering the taxman were not heterodox enough for a billionaire entrepreneur, Mr Benioff laid […]
‘Care robots’ for the elderly could be developed in the UK after government funding
By: Healtheuropa Oct 30, 2019 The £33.9m (~€39.3m) research will be conducted over 5 years. The project plans to develop a sophisticated ‘care robot’ which could be deployed to assist the elderly. These robots will take on challenges like helping people up after a fall, making sure medication is taken and delivering meals. The use of ‘care […]
Labour calls for halt to Google’s acquisition of Fitbit
By: Alex Hern Alex Hern Labour has written to the competition regulator calling for Google’s reported acquisition of Fitbit to be halted, at least until a wider inquiry into anticompetitive practices in the technology sector is completed. Google made an offer to purchase the fitness tracking company on Monday for an undisclosed price, according to […]
This robot can move with ease across a host of environments
By: Interesting Engineering October 29, 2019 Watch Full Video
WhatsApp sues surveillance firm NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones VentureBeat
By: Reuters October 29, 2019 WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included diplomats, political dissidents, journalists, and senior government officials. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in San […]
A robot cooks burgers at startup restaurant Creator
By: TechCrunch October 29, 2019 Creator is a new burger-making robot startup. We visit its first restaurant in San Francisco to taste Creator’s burger from the future. Watch Full Video
Why you should worry if you have a Chinese smartphone
By: Ian Tucker October 26, 2019 Samantha Hoffman is an analyst of Chinese security issues at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (Aspi). She recently published a paper entitled Engineering Global Consent: The Chinese Communist Party’s Data-Driven Power Expansion. Internet pioneers heralded a time when information would be set free, giving people everywhere unfiltered access to […]
The demographic trend that matters most is not what you think
By: Linkedin Oct 25, 2019 When most of our clients hear ‘demographics’ they think of aging populations in Japan and Europe, digital native millennials in the U.S., or the working-age population boom in Africa and South Asia. Rightly so. But what is overlooked is perhaps one of the most important demographic trends for investors: the […]
US SEC to propose regulations for proxy advisers
By: Patrick Temple-West October 25, 2019 The US Securities and Exchange Commission is set to propose new limits on shareholders’ ability to agitate for change at companies, handing a win to pro-business lobby groups. The SEC, led by chairman Jay Clayton, is expected to vote to propose rules that would require proxy adviser firms to give […]